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Making a mix without building it - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
Making a mix without building it
There are some mixers that just push up all the faders and mix with everything in the mix from the beginning. The theory is that everything will be in the mix anyway, so you might as well start with it all in as soon as you can. In this movie, I'm going to show you the advantages of mixing this way, and we'll look at an example of how this technique is done. The advantage of this method is that by hearing all of the instruments and vocals, you're able to make an aural space for everything. If you insert one instrument at a time, you begin to run out of space, and frequently you have to go back to the beginning just to make sure everything fits in together properly. The downside to this is it might not have the power of the previous mixes. So the first thing is we'll just bring all the faders up. And in this case, we have our subgroup faders that we're going to be mixing from, just to make things a little bit easier. And we're just going to randomly bring the faders up here. (music…
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Learning the principles of building a mix1m 1s
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Assigning the drums to a subgroup3m 55s
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Building the mix from the kick10m 8s
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Building the mix from the snare8m 46s
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Building the mix from the toms5m 25s
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Building the mix from the overhead mics3m 53s
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Checking the drum phase4m 44s
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Balancing direct and miked bass channels3m 36s
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Building the mix from the bass3m 26s
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Building the mix from the vocals4m 19s
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Balancing the rhythm section2m 44s
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Balancing the rest of the instruments with the rhythm section5m 22s
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Making a mix without building it4m 20s
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Balancing the harmony vocals2m 35s
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